Why Are People Obsessed With Diet Coke?

Diet Coke fans are out of control. Many claim to be seriously addicted to the zero-calorie soda - but how it this possible with no sugar or fat?

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CHAPTERS:
00:00- Intro
02:12 - The Secret Formula
02:47 - Testing Diet Coke
03:18- Caffeine
05:12 - The Experience Of DC
05:52 - Aspartame
06:51 - Chronic Diet Soda Consumers
8:28 - Stephen Morrison
09:41- The 'Zero' Calorie Effect
10:03 - Karen
11:10 - The Whistleblower

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Are you secretly addicted to Diet Sodas?? Leave your stories below!⬇️
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[CatgirlTrash]

I feel the line "too lazy to pour a glass of water" is scarily true and derserves it's own video, single serving products creates a lot of waste and weird habits

[gwynethkuhlman]

I had a SEVERE addiction to Diet Coke. Prior to going into hospital for my eating disorder, I was drinking 6 LITRES A DAY, I couldn’t stop. After not having drunk it the 6 months that I was in hospital, I had a sip of my brothers one day and thought it was absolutely disgusting. The whole thing is equally insane and terrifying.

[loveisthedrug]

I am so glad that all my mom gave me was water or milk. I only had sugary drinks or food at birthday parties or holidays. My snacks were tomatoes, cucumbers, or green peppers with some garlic salt. As an adult I find soda disgusting and I am doing the same for my children. It amazes me how many people are astonished when my children ask for water over juice or soda when we go to their houses. Why are so many people ignorant about nutrition and well being? This seems to be a pretty important issue to address in our society.

[jaydawg]

I switched to diet soda after being diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. After a year, I realized I was drinking twice as much soda as I used to. Last month, I decided to quit drinking it. After a few days, I became very agitated and full of anxiety. I was angry and depressed. It took a month for these withdrawal symptoms to pass.

[marthas]

Because a family member is an engineer, they always complained that diet drinks rotted the drains they were building. I’m pretty sure that was just to scare me off drinking them but it definitely worked as a tactic!

[corytanksley]

This really got me feeling happy that I got into the habit of drinking water over everything else. Now that I think about it, I usually just go with water because it's my default drink.

[Human-lghb]

My brother went to new york on a school trip and when he came back he said the coke drinking was wild. He went into a fast food and both the small, medium and large coke were a dollar so he obviously got the large. But it was so massive he had to share it with his friends, and he came back just being sick of coke in general.

[superrubyox]

For anyone struggling with quitting soda be it diet or their full calorie counterparts, I highly suggest slowly phasing out the habit by drinking sparkling water instead. Sparkling water mixed with a bit of (real and not packaged shit) juice makes for a healthier alternative that scratches that same itch. (Obviously don’t drink to much juice or you risk just having the same amount of sugar you would anyway)

[TheAcadianGuy]

I believe it has to do with the ''o calorie''. Sugar is highly addictive, and seeing 0 calories wired us to completely shut down our guilt or worries .

[dreamingdormouse]

The withdrawal symptoms (headaches and light sensitivity) could be from the caffeine though. A lot of people get migraines when they don't drink coffee every day.

[Cat_Woods]

I figured out it was addictive over 20 years ago when I worked at a company that kept a fridge in the break room stocked with several kinds of soda but bought easily 6 times as many cases of Diet Coke because we went through them so fast. It wasn't just people watching their weight who were addicted. Everyone was. I finally quit cold turkey and had a terrible headache for 3 days when I did. Later I found that if I made an exception and had a Diet Coke, I'd quickly get hooked again and had to go through quitting all over again. I just had to not drink it ever. It's so bad for your teeth and your sugar metabolism. Really messes you up. We used to joke at that job that they were putting cocaine in the diet coke again like they used to do with the original Coca cola. Don't know what it is, but I agree it's addictive.

[aexlee]

As a kid I always thought soft drinks as “spicey water” and never understood why other kids like it. Now I do but I’m still not a fan of the fizz and I’m grateful for that 😂, I avoid it whenever I can

[themacksterr]

Back when I had a Diet Coke addiction, it was definitely because of the aspartame! I couldn’t get enough of that artificial sugar, whether it was diet sodas or sugar-free candies!

[cringebased]

I am a waiter and can honestly say some of the strongest reactions I've ever had is telling people we are out of artificial sweeteners or diet coke, it is not often but sometimes we are out of those and people react "too me" outrageously dramatic but to them it is the worst thing I could say

[sil]

I always found the craze for diet soda interesting. No calories is a perk but it’s just so sweet compared to regular soda (at least coke and Pepsi)

[petrtomsej]

For me as an European, its weird to even think to have one soda/day. Like man, you can have free tap water that doesn't contain much harmful chemicals as EU has strict laws (unlike USA). Also, any soda has to contain conservants (not always good for your body), food colour, even the artificial sweetner is sus. I don't know, better to not be addicted to anything (ofc sugar is in many stuff but regulating that helps too)

[chorabari]

For many years, I drank a Diet Coke (or Coke Zero) nearly every afternoon, until my dental hygienist told me it was ruining my teeth. That finally got me to kick the habit.

[Smacy]

I’ve heard on some psych podcasts that habits themselves can be *actually* addictive, as in, our bodies can go through physical withdrawals when abstaining from certain behaviors. Of course the severity is on a much different level than for instance, opioid or alcohol withdrawal, but the fact you can experience physical withdrawal symptoms by giving up a habit just blows my mind.

[catboy_official]

This video helped me quit drinking soda. I realised how much i drank it, and how it was never as satisfying as i remembered. Now i sometimes have a can and cola tastes metallic, unsatisfying, with that too-sweet flavour that I used to crave.